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On Wednesday night BBC Two broadcast Rupert Goold's film of King Charles III with a script by Mike Bartlett. It is on BBC iPlayer for the next four weeks, and if you watch nothing else in that time, more
On Wednesday night BBC Two broadcast Rupert Goold's film of King Charles III with a script by Mike Bartlett. It is on BBC iPlayer for the next four weeks, and if you watch nothing else in that time, more
BFI Southbank is midway through a season of the television plays of the radical writer Trevor Griffiths. Tuesday last featured the playwright reflecting on his career (and I was frustrated I couldn't attend) but still to come are showings more
I am delighted that this week the new issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Television and Radio has published my article 'Exploring the lost television and technique of producer Fred O’Donovan'. The article is developed more
After that final episode, if you're anything like me, you need to read about it, so here are links to Stateside reaction. • Homeland finale - showrunner Alex Gansa talks Season 6, Carrie’s future and planning the end game: from Variety's Cynthia more
For the last few years I have been invited to give a group of classes for the Royal College of Art's Critical Writing in Art & Design MA programme. Across four weeks a group of super-smart students help me explore some more
John Wyver writes: Earlier today I spoke on a panel at the Archives, Access and Research conference at BFI Southbank. Co-organised by the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway, University of more
Sunday is a big day for live/as-live performance online, with the release of Opera North's Ring Cycle plus a stream at 3pm from the Barbican of the Complicite and Schaubühne Berlin show at the Barbican, Beware of Pity (above). Links more
Although it was published just over a fortnight ago I don't want to let pass without comment a slightly thoughtless Sunday Times article about John Berger and arts television by Waldemar Januszczak. In 'A murky way of seeing' (free registration required) the more
Let's for a moment forget the woes of the world and look forward to some television treats coming up at BFI Southbank during February. A second season of Forgotten Dramas (the first was in 2015) features a number of fascinating titles more